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In the early 2000s many kids having grown up on RBY and GSC were saying they were too old for the games, and that Pokemon was a fad soon to die out. Gen 3 rolled around and while not as succesful it survived and over time many did eventually come back for nostalgia or maybe just downloaded Go when it came out. in fact I did not know Ruby and Sapphire existed until after emerald was released because my siblings last played crystal and I knew of the games from them most of the time. Which actually lead me to think sapphire was a new game when I saw it in Walmart and I was disappointed to find out it was emerald but worse xD
So I thought I'd ask if anyone had that phase here and what it was like? Did you sell your games and cards (some of which might not be worth a lot of money?) Did you actually feel like you had outgrown the series or was it out of some feeling of obligation that since you were getting older that you had to drop anything 'kid' lile that you enjoyed when you were little? If so when and why did you come back?
For me my gen 1 and 2 was 3 and 4, by platinums release I was 12-13 and the friend I had been playing Pokemon with all those elementary school years suddenly stopped liking it. It was a shock because I thought it would be more gradual, some talk about getting less and less interested. But no one day a pokemon card I had been using as a bookmark feel out of my bag and he was like "you still like that?"
So yeah 13 year old became self conscious about still liking pokemon, I sold all my games bar Emerald and Platinum (which I was gonna keep for nostalgia sake, platinum did get chewed up by my dog but I got a new one while gamestop was still selling them years later) and I stopped watching the anime at the exact episode where piplup refused to evolve (part of it was also me not liking thay decision to bot evolve the pokemon) and I even starting forcing myself to hate the new games to keep myself from falling back into them.
Yes I was part of the problem in gen 5 of people hating on the new designs, I just wanted to force myself to hate them since I had resigned myself to that being too old phase. What made me come back was watching super Skarmory play black and then playing black 2 he said you could get riolu early game. Which at the time was my favorite Pokemon. So I went and picked up black 2 and fell back in love with the games, went back and got black and hgss, and then X and Y got announced and it was such a hype trailer that I of course needed to get my first job to buy a 3ds.
So yeah I now say **** the boomer mentality that when you grow up you can only like "adult" things, like sports, and the weather channel. What a boring way to live your life abiding by some arbitrary rules about what you should be allowed to like. Nearly cost me the master piece that is black 2, and the designs I hated so much from gen 5 I love now.
So I thought I'd ask if anyone had that phase here and what it was like? Did you sell your games and cards (some of which might not be worth a lot of money?) Did you actually feel like you had outgrown the series or was it out of some feeling of obligation that since you were getting older that you had to drop anything 'kid' lile that you enjoyed when you were little? If so when and why did you come back?
For me my gen 1 and 2 was 3 and 4, by platinums release I was 12-13 and the friend I had been playing Pokemon with all those elementary school years suddenly stopped liking it. It was a shock because I thought it would be more gradual, some talk about getting less and less interested. But no one day a pokemon card I had been using as a bookmark feel out of my bag and he was like "you still like that?"
So yeah 13 year old became self conscious about still liking pokemon, I sold all my games bar Emerald and Platinum (which I was gonna keep for nostalgia sake, platinum did get chewed up by my dog but I got a new one while gamestop was still selling them years later) and I stopped watching the anime at the exact episode where piplup refused to evolve (part of it was also me not liking thay decision to bot evolve the pokemon) and I even starting forcing myself to hate the new games to keep myself from falling back into them.
Yes I was part of the problem in gen 5 of people hating on the new designs, I just wanted to force myself to hate them since I had resigned myself to that being too old phase. What made me come back was watching super Skarmory play black and then playing black 2 he said you could get riolu early game. Which at the time was my favorite Pokemon. So I went and picked up black 2 and fell back in love with the games, went back and got black and hgss, and then X and Y got announced and it was such a hype trailer that I of course needed to get my first job to buy a 3ds.
So yeah I now say **** the boomer mentality that when you grow up you can only like "adult" things, like sports, and the weather channel. What a boring way to live your life abiding by some arbitrary rules about what you should be allowed to like. Nearly cost me the master piece that is black 2, and the designs I hated so much from gen 5 I love now.